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Matt Bateman@mbateman• about 2 years ago

Montessori: “The inert child who never worked with his hands, who never had the feeling of being useful and capable of effort, who never found by experience that to live means living socially, and that to think and to create means to make use of a harmony of souls…

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• about 2 years ago
Replying to @mbateman

“…this type of child…will become pessimistic and melancholy and will seek on the surface of vanity the compensation for a lost paradise. “And thus, a lessened man, he will appear at the gates of the university. And to ask for what?

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• about 2 years ago
Replying to @mbateman

“To ask for a profession that will render him capable of making his home in a society in which he is a stranger and which is indifferent to him. He will enter into a society to take part in the functioning of a civilization for which he lacks all feeling.”

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• about 2 years ago
Replying to @mbateman

I think this is my favorite passage in all of Montessori “...who never found by experience that…to think and to create means to make use of a harmony of souls…” Just so perfect

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